...mearagirl? :)
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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meara - Sep 10, 2011 9:16:23 am PDT #17772 of 25501
Strix - Sep 10, 2011 9:30:42 am PDT #17773 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I didn't have one. I used my grad school email addy, and then went straight to hotmail.
amych - Sep 10, 2011 9:42:04 am PDT #17774 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Paging NoiseDesign! A while back you were talking about selling off some of your old machines - do you still have any of that stuff around?
Gris - Sep 10, 2011 10:01:30 am PDT #17775 of 25501
Hey. New board.
NovaChild17
I still sign on to AIM now and again.
Cass - Sep 10, 2011 10:19:36 am PDT #17776 of 25501
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
What was your AOL handle?
My uncle's current email address. Startling every time I see it. Just because I gave it up doesn't mean it's not, you know, mine.
-t - Sep 10, 2011 10:43:22 am PDT #17777 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I didn't have one. I used my grad school email addy, and then went straight to hotmail.
Me, too, only not hotmail, a local isp.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 10:46:06 am PDT #17778 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought everyone in the US was on AOL or Compuserve. Like, it was law. I didn't have a local ISP--I connected from FIDOnet. And I had an email address with sojourn.com, but I don't think they provided dialup.
le nubian - Sep 10, 2011 11:04:46 am PDT #17779 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I was definitely compuserve. I had a couple of aol ids, but I don't remember what they were.
hell, I don't remember my compuserve id any more either.
tommyrot - Sep 10, 2011 11:13:07 am PDT #17780 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was briefly on AOL. I used 'kruegz' as my ID, like I did on The Well before. I still use kruegz on some places today. (It's the first five letters of my last name, plus a 'z'--a friend's nickname for me.)
I was also on Compuserve back in '94. I thought it was cool how you could send faxes and snail-mail from Compuserve.
I remember trying to find internet access back in '93 or so while living in Minneapolis. The only thing I could find required you to be a University of Minnesota student or alumnus. So my roommate could get the internet, but not me. But there were some text-based BBSs that could give me text-based access to the internet, so that was fun.
amych - Sep 10, 2011 11:15:02 am PDT #17781 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I wasn't ever on AOL (or CServe either) - I eventually picked up a couple of IDs to use AIM after they opened it up to other people, but I never had the actual dial-in, mail, chatroom, AOL-content kind of account with them. Like -t, I went .edu -> local ISP.